Spike-drawing tool.



No. 696,844. Patented Apr. I, [902.

J. K. REID.

SPIKE DRAWING TOOL.

led Sept. 20 1901 (Application fi M IIIIIIE l l t NTTED dramas Parent rricn,

JOHN KEITH REID, OF MONTREAL, CANADA.

SPIKE=DRAWING TOOL.

SPEGIFIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,844, dated April 1, 1902. Application filed September 20, 1901. Serial No. 75,983. (No model.)

To CLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KEITH REID, of the city of Montreal, in the district of Montreal and Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spike-Drawing Tools; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention has for its object to provide means whereby railway-spikes can more easily be drawn and without damaging either the surface upon which the rail rests or the rail itself.

The invention may be said briefly to consist of a drawing device adapted to fulcrum upon the rail and when worked draw the spike continuously in a straight line with the spike to be drawn.

More specifically speaking, my improved spike-drawing tool consists of a standard adapted to rest upon thehead of a rail and havingasegmental drum fulcrumed thereto and provided with a lever integral therewith and projecting radially therefrom, while a flexible length is hung from said lever adjacent to said drum and has a device at its lower end for connection to the spike to be drawn,these parts being disposed relatively to one another to have the periphery of the drum intersect a vertical line running through the spike to be drawn.

For full comprehension, however, of my invention reference must be had to the accompanying drawings, in which like symbols indicate the same parts, and wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of myimproved drawing-tool. Fig. 2 is a face view thereof, and Fig. 3 a plan view.

The standard of my improved spike-drawing tool consists of aplate b, havinga hook c at its lower end, and the space within said hook conforming to the cross-section of the rail-head. The drum d is fulcru med concentrically thereof upon a pin e, projecting through a pair of flanges f, integral with the interior of said drum, while a pair of nuts 9 retain said drum against displacementlongitudinally of the pin. The perimeter of the drum is cut away between these flanges to accommodate the standard. A lever-arm 7a is formed integral withthe perimeter of the drum in line with said flanges, and the portion thereof abutting the drum is formed with a bearing 2', in which a pinj is rigidly set and has its ends projecting across the perimeter of the drum. The ends of two lengthsk of band-chain are connected, respectively, at their upper ends to the ends of said pin and the lower or depending ends to the upper ends of a pairof jaws Z, pivoted together, as at m, these jaws being when their upper ends are spike.

This drawing-tool may be used in connection with any form of rail other than that indicated at 92, while to facilitate the working thereof the le vet-arm can be made hollow and The drum being concentric of the fulcrum of the leverand the fulcrum being in vertical line with the Web of the rail, upon the jaws being caused to grip the head of the spike and the outer end of the lever raised the bandchain will be wound upon the drum and caused to constantly draw the spike in the line of the spike itself, while the strain of the operation will be exerted entirely upon the head of the rail.

What I claim is as follows:

1. A spike-drawing tool comprising astandard consisting of a single vertical plate adapted to rest upon the top of the rail and having a hooked lower end to clip the head of said rail; a segmental drum having its perimeter cut away midway of its axial length to straddle said plate; means forfulcruming said segmental drum to the upper end of said plate concentrically of said drum; a lever arm formed in onewith and projecting radially from said drum in line with one end of the cut-away portion of said drum; a pair of flexible lengths one on each side of said lever and carried by and depending from said lever at the point at which it abuts said segmental drum; and a pair of pivotally-connected gripping-jaws hung from the lower ends of said flexible lengths, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

2. Aspike-drawingtoolcomprisingastandard consisting of a single vertical plate adapted to rest upon the top of the rail and having a hooked lower end to clip the head of said rail; a segmental drum having its perimeter cut away midway of its axial length to straddle said plate; a pair of flanges one on each drawn upon adapted to grip the head of the the end of a wooden handle 0 fitted thereinto.

side of said plate and integral with the interior of said segmental drum and fulcrnmed to the upper end of said plate concentrically of said drum; a lever-arm formed in one with and projecting radially from said drum in line With one end of the cut-away portion of said drum; a pair of flexible lengths one on each side of said lever and carried by and depending from said lever at the point at which it :0 abuts said segmental drum; and a pair of pivotally-connected gripping-jaws hung from the lower ends of said flexible lengths, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my sig- [5 nature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN KEITH REID. VVit-nesses:

FRED. J. SEARS, ARTHUR T. BAKER. 

